Thickness...

Kyle... you are one step ahead of me in this thread. Your two points are EXACTLY right... and they underscore, AGAIN, the difference between using a mediocre, cheap piece of hardware and a really well made one.

I know $500 SOUNDS expensive compared to things like a Kindle Fire... but do you remember what the crappy Windows "tablets" that nobody talks about anymore went for before the iPad??? No. You wanna know why you don't remember? Because they immediately disappeared in a cloud of smoke because they were so uncompetitive…

OMG... could you WHINE anymore??? Hey... if you wanna apply that logic, though, than apply it to Windows... which has been nothing but a copycat product from day 1. Sure... the whole blah blah blah argument of Xerox really developed the graphical user interface... but it was APPLE that brought it to market. Does that…

oh man... I'm sorry Giggity... I feel like a noob... and in rereading your original comment, I can't believe I couldn't see that... what an idiot i am. again... apologies.

Listen ass... I'm not talking about representing any sized group, nor should you. Intelligently, however, I can, and will, comment on the economics of marketplace diversity, and in this case, for the users/buyers in this end of the marketplace. The same example can be made for any industry... I can comment on the…

marketing and greed, with a dash of incompetence.

and this, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly the reason I'll be staying with the iOS/Apple platform.

better aim?

I'll take that bet

awww... poor lil Galaxy Nexus... heavily discounted before your lil feet made it out of the starting gate. Bad omen.... baaaad omen.

God Microsoft amuses me. "10 years ago a browser was born..." making it sound like something had been INVENTED here for the love of Mary. So... let's cut the crap. 10 years ago you released (what seems to be normal for MS) a crappily written, impossibly insecure web browser named IE6... and because you continued to…

Bill Gates quote would make a little more sense if the TIMING of the first iteration of Windows was much closer to the Mac. I think what Bill MEANT to say is this: "I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor names Xerox and I came over to your house one day and saw you had stolen his TV set. For the next…

RIM was "special" only if special means "different." Quite frankly, developing an architecture where you are a necessary central point of passage for all traffic on your network sounds nothing like attempted greed to me. By being able to monitor and control ALL communication, verses just the cellular traffic would…

Anyone here surprised? Show of hands? No one? ::looking around:: Didn't think so.

planes are highly electronic devices with plenty of computers on-board. The iPads are wired into the cockpit so that if one pilot makes a change to his/her iPad, the other pilot's iPad gets the same change. That's an FAA requirement. Secondly, and I'm guess you already know this, WHERE you are when you're using an…

Everything in a pilot's "flight bag" needs to be there in duplicate. It's not IMPOSSIBLE I supposed for two iPads to cease functionality, but I wouldn't be surprised if more than two were actually in the cockpit. In addition, there are updates ALL THE TIME to these "critical documents" and it's far easier to stay…

Take. UMG. down. Maybe they will crush the RIAA when they fall and obliterate them.

I like it... "resistance"

This (automatically updating your device and/or removing marketplace installs), quite frankly, is bs Apple would never do... good luck Kindle users. Amazon is basically an upstart in the area of IT and software development. It also doesn't have to worry about the kind of ramifications for doing something stupid like…